The Schaffner Players

Now folks, we’re gonna have our candy. If you’ll all look over there on the stage, you’ll see a lot of swell premiums. See all them prizes?

There’s French dolls, electric lamps, blankets, and hundreds of other swell prizes. Now all them things we carry from town to town. The only reason we got’em on display is to make you think you’re gonna win one of ‘em.

After all, this is a money makin’ scheme.

But I want to make one thing clear.

Tonight, at this performance, every cent taken in at this candy sale goes for the benefit of the poor -- the poor Mr. Schaffner. I aint’s gonna tell you there is a prize in very box, cause there ain’t. If there was, I’d go broke. But every once in a while there is a box with a coupon in it.

Now if you git one of them coupons, jist bring it down to the stage and the lovely lady will give you whatever it calls for.

Now the price of the candy is the same old price, jist fifteen cents a box. But tonight